Scott Gabriel Knowles is a Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is a historian of disaster worldwide. Knowles is the author/editor of six books—including The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America; Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Perspective, co-edited with Kyle Cleveland and Ryuma Shineha; Worlds Fairs in the Era of the Cold War, co-edited with Art Molella; The Second Environmental Crisis, co-edited with James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf; Building Drexel: A University and Its City, 1891-2016, co-edited with Richardson Dilworth; and Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City.
